Brief Encounters
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SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 11, 2009
Closed Oct 24, 2009
Opened Apr 11, 2009
Closed Oct 24, 2009
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Running Time:
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 15min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Repressed love after a chance meeting at a train station; flaming passion from a single dance across the floor; mistaken identity following a passing holiday acquaintance - three different stories inspired by three brief moments in time. Each story in Brief Encounters is a miniature delight only possible from the pen of Noël Coward.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Festival Theatre (Shaw Festival)
Queen St
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
The Shaw Festival is the second-largest repertory company in North America, and the only theatre in the world that specializes in plays written by Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries (1856-1950): "plays about the beginning of the modern world." Thei [...] Read More
Queen St
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
The Shaw Festival is the second-largest repertory company in North America, and the only theatre in the world that specializes in plays written by Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries (1856-1950): "plays about the beginning of the modern world." Thei [...] Read More
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If the Shaw Festival needed a reason to prove why it reigns as one of the most important repertory theater companies around, one need look no further than its production of Noël Coward's
Brief Encounters as definitive validation of that fact.
These three one-act plays, which are part of Coward's larger Tonight at 8:30 series, contain the lustiest set designs seen on Southern Ontario's coveted stage in years, accented by simulated passing trains and a nocturnal oceanfront flirting ground. And thanks to a stellar cast led by Patrick Galligan and Deborah Hay (who play the leads in each work) who seize every comical moment, the master playwright's genius for romantic absurdity comes s[...]